Network Engineer

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · San Diego, CA +1 · Networks

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Network Engineer to join their team in San Diego, CA. This role involves performing hardware and software installation, configuration, and maintenance, complying with cyber requirements, and recommending system enhancements. The engineer will solve complex problems in an Agile, Networking, and Software environment and may travel for system installations and test support. The position requires a Bachelor's degree with 2 years of experience or a Master's degree, with specific experience in OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, Cisco IOS, Junos CLI, RHEL-family Linux systems, and packet analysis. A Secret clearance is required.

What you'd actually do

  1. Perform as a consultant in highly specialized, leading edge information technologies and methodologies
  2. Perform hardware and software installation, configuration, and maintenance
  3. Comply with cyber requirements, which may include routine system checks for antivirus, logging, and network system services
  4. Recommend and implement approved system enhancements that will improve the performance and reliability of the system including installing, upgrading/patching, monitoring, problem resolution, and configuration management
  5. Solve complex problems across disciplines in an Agile, Networking, and Software environment

Skills

Required

  • Bachelors degree in science, engineering, or related discipline with 2 years of experience, or 0 years of experience with a Masters degree
  • An additional 4 years of relevant experience can be considered in lieu of Bachelors degree
  • Experience configuring and operating OSPF in multi-area deployments and explain inter-area route propagation
  • Working knowledge of IS-IS including NET addressing, level selection, general configuration
  • Foundational knowledge of when and why to use iGP instead of eGP
  • Working BGP knowledge including iBGP and eBGP, route policy, and multi-site interconnect
  • Ability to operate fluently in both Cisco IOS and Junos CLI under time-bound conditions
  • Ability to build and operate multi-vendor topologies in GNS3 and EVE-NG for change validation and training
  • Experience administering RHEL-family Linux systems including Linux networking, and other administrative functions
  • Experience capturing and analyzing packets on routers, switches and hosts to validate L2 and L3 behavior
  • Must be a US Citizen
  • The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S Government Secret clearance is required

Nice to have

  • Ability to articulate end-to-end packet flow across L2 and L3 boundaries including filter and ARP behavior
  • Working to continuously expand multi-vendor expertise beyond current platform comfort zone

What the JD emphasized

  • Secret clearance is required